My name is Kelli Kunick and I am a senior at Victor Central Schools and a Girl Scout
of Western New York. I have been working on the highest award for Girl Scouts;
the Gold Award. For my Gold Award project, I needed to come up with a project
that was unique, make it sustainable, include a leadership component, and
to meet a need that is present. And once completed, to share the project with
the global community.

For my project, I created different and intricate coloring pages to give to the
cancer treatment center at Golisano Children’s Hospital. At the treatment center,
there were not many activities for the teenage patients or their siblings to do
while they wait for the chemotherapy treatments. By creating these pages,
I am providing the hospital with an activity for this age group, as it will be easier
for them to hand out single pages, rather than giving out full coloring books
that can be expensive to purchase and cannot be replicated because of copyright laws.

To make my project sustainable, I am providing the hospital with a flash drive
containing all of my drawings, allowing them to be able to reproduce as may
as they need or desire. In addition to the pages I designed, I held a coloring page
contest, where some of the drawings from people in my community will be
included in the drawings that are given to the hospital. All of the pages
have copyright consent for duplication. In addition to the donation of the
coloring pages, I led my Girl Scout troop in an activity where we created
bags with crayons and coloring pages from coloring books to give to the
Emergency Room for them to disseminate to families with children in the ER.

I wanted to create a project that involved cancer patients and their siblings
because my brother is a cancer survivor and there was not much to do in the
hospital while he was receiving chemotherapy treatments. I heard that the
hospital was in need of activities for teens and thought that creating these
coloring pages for them was a great way to help my community and complete
my Gold Award. I love drawing and I wanted to be able to share my drawings with
those in need.

I want to thank CURE Childhood Cancer Association for supporting me throughout
my project, for allowing me to collect cans and bottles at their events to turn in to
purchase supplies for my project and allowing me to post this blog. I am very
grateful for the support and am glad I am able to help my community.

Below is one of my drawings that can be downloaded and colored! I hope you enjoy!